October 15, 201213 yr Hi all, I'm just setting up my USB drive for unRAID but I have a few questions before I jump on board. 1. If I opt for the free version to test (I have six drives) if I decide I like it enough to buy, does unRAID re-pool the other drives automatically or do I have to start again? 2. The cache drive, what minimum size would you advise? As I have a spare 60GB SSD laying on my desk doing nothing. Is this big enough? 3. Will this setup work? 12tb [6x 2tb] UnRAID NAS Box with add-ons Media Center running Ubuntu/Windows 7 + XBMC + add-ons I am thinking of using my spare 2x 60GB SSD's for the OS drives, apps etc (on both the NAS and Media Center) and then buying two 3tb hard drives for direct storage of my media content on the media center. Is that a good idea/decent setup? The goal is for the NAS to download the content and push it to the media center somehow? And then for the NAS to do a weekly incremental backup of the media center (and my PC) using rsync. Or am I over complicating things? Regards, Jon
October 16, 201213 yr yes unraid just upgrades the usable drives and you can add them to the array. you dont need local storage on the media centre, unraid can serve it all up no problem. i would use a larger drive in the media computer if you load win7 on it.
October 16, 201213 yr yes unraid just upgrades the usable drives and you can add them to the array. you dont need local storage on the media centre, unraid can serve it all up no problem. i would use a larger drive in the media computer if you load win7 on it. I would disagree. I've got a 64 gig Crucial M4 running Win 7 that I use as an XBMC/Netflix box and it's got ~15 GB free.
October 16, 201213 yr xbmc stores artwork files on the local drive unless you setup special settings manually.
November 17, 201213 yr Author Ok thanks guys. Just to clarify a 60gb SSD drive is fine for a cache drive ?
November 17, 201213 yr Your cache drive needs to be as large as the largest file your going to transfer to it. Now if your largest is say a 30gig blueray iso than so be it. Also consider how much data do you plan to transfer to your cache drive a day before the mover kicks in. So if you plan on transferring more than 64gig a day than you need a larger Cache drive. I only have a 30gig cache drive but I don't use my cache drive and the mover script. I use it to host my internal website so it doesn't spin up my drives.
January 15, 201313 yr Author Can anyone help with this; http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=25290.msg219859#msg219859
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